bay-window
(ˈbeɪˈwɪndəʊ)
[f. bay n.3 + window.]
‘A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outwards from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; often called a bow-window.’ Parker Concise Gloss. Archit.
| 1428 in Heath Grocers' Comp. (1869) 6 In the baye wyndowe of the chambre. 1562 J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 204 All Newgate wyndowes bay wyndowes they bee. 1601 Shakes. Twel. N. v. ii. 40 Why it hath bay Windowes transparant as baricadoes. 1741 Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 233 The old bay-windows he will have preserved. 1861 Dickens Gt. Expect. iii. 105 Three stories of bow-window (not bay-window, which is another thing). |
Hence bay-windowed, having bay-windows.
| 1836 T. Hook G. Gurney III. vi. 331 In the bay windowed drawing-room. 1881 M. E. Braddon Asph. II. 137 An airy bay-windowed drawing room. 1883 A. Crane in Leis. H. 481/2 The ‘bay-windowed’ city of San Francisco. |